Dru
Dru is given to both girls and boys: 42 girls and 58 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,593 among girls’ names and #2,366 among boys’, #3,537 among all names counting both); 4,654 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Dru every year since 2021.
An estimated 4,340 Americans named Dru and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 13 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dru by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dru mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dru is “a diminutive of the male given name Andrew, also used as a formal given name.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given names Drusilla and Drucilla, also used as a formal given name.”
/dɹuː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dru?
#2,366 among boys’ names, 2025
Dru rose from #4,327 in 2015 to #2,366 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 34.0 per million.
152 babies in 2004, the peak
Dru peaked in 2004, when 152 babies were given it (72 boys, #1,749 among boys’ names). The 100 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,593 | 58 | #2,366 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,417 | 59 | #2,382 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,396 | 76 | #2,003 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,662 | 74 | #2,041 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,696 | 74 | #2,003 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,191 | 52 | #2,474 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,031 | 44 | #2,818 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,174 | 54 | #2,424 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,600 | 48 | #2,605 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,179 | 33 | #3,380 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,881 | 23 | #4,327 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,197 | 26 | #3,930 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,361 | 35 | #3,141 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,868 | 27 | #3,823 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,105 | 32 | #3,383 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,623 | 51 | #2,439 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,631 | 40 | #2,964 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,476 | 37 | #3,123 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,991 | 54 | #2,383 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,489 | 50 | #2,456 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,891 | 58 | #2,114 |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,208 | 72 | #1,749 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,704 | 45 | #2,363 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,152 | 46 | #2,258 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,060 | 55 | #1,959 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,818 | 79 | #1,516 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,480 | 99 | #1,249 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,461 | 79 | #1,434 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,274 | 82 | #1,352 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,917 | 37 | #2,223 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,905 | 46 | #1,863 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,782 | 37 | #2,185 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,740 | 33 | #2,302 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,668 | 34 | #2,223 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,079 | 40 | #1,922 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,994 | 29 | #2,385 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,105 | 37 | #1,956 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,612 | 25 | #2,384 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,909 | 35 | #1,836 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,069 | 40 | #1,624 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,759 | 40 | #1,602 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,441 | 43 | #1,463 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,920 | 37 | #1,603 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,484 | 29 | #1,906 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,791 | 35 | #1,667 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,388 | 23 | #2,237 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,497 | 28 | #1,915 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,835 | 27 | #1,883 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,753 | 24 | #2,024 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 23 | #2,066 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 26 | #1,849 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,399 | 18 | #2,300 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,852 | 19 | #2,148 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,200 | 24 | #1,834 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,616 | 19 | #2,149 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,301 | 31 | #1,529 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,357 | 25 | #1,654 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,264 | 31 | #1,406 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,896 | 22 | #1,674 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,021 | 26 | #1,519 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,449 | 28 | #1,459 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,844 | 23 | #1,667 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,987 | 17 | #1,982 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,954 | 20 | #1,821 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,749 | 25 | #1,610 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,898 | 21 | #1,783 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,891 | 27 | #1,527 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,661 | 19 | #1,857 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,532 | 25 | #1,593 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,491 | 13 | #2,302 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,543 | 13 | #2,241 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,378 | 13 | #2,234 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,462 | 12 | #2,315 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,792 | 9 | #2,727 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,196 | 10 | #2,538 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,970 | 8 | #2,833 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,767 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,082 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,104 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,903 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dru a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,654 Americans recorded as Dru, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dru: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dru, and how old are they?
4,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 4,654 Americans ever recorded as Dru. The median Dru alive today is 27 years old; half are between 13 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 3,637 people named Dru (1,503 women and girls, 2,134 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,810 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 643 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 476 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 789 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dru born?
The states with the most babies named Dru are Texas, Louisiana and Indiana, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana and Indiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,788 | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #696 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #954 | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | #2,565 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dru with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,304 babies since 1880, Dru is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 100 of their 204 babies (49%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dru
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dru and names like it
- Compare Dru and DrueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDru peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dru since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Dru.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dru alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.